Chapter 242. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Chattanooga Western Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River near Chattanooga,” giving the said company more time in which to begin and complete said bridge
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CHAP. 242.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Chattanooga Western Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River near Chattanooga,” giving the said company more time in which to begin and complete said bridge. February 17, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Bridge across Tennesser River at Chattanooga, Tenn.Vol. 28, p. 30.That section five of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Chattanooga Western Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River near Chattanooga,” approved January twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 5. Time extended construction.That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved; and any alterations or changes that may be required by Congress in the bridge constructed under this Act, or its entireFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 242–244, 250. 1897.535 removal, shall be made by the corporation owning or controlling the same at its own expense. Furthermore, if the construction of said bridge shall not be commenced before January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and completed before January first, nineteen hundred and one, all privileges conferred hereby and this Act shall become null and void.
” " Approved, February 17, 1897.